Five
Colors,
Poems by Stan Sanvel Rubin
The
deceptively simple poems of Stan Sanvel Rubin's Five Colors evoke both the calm surface of
daily life and the turbulent depths beneath. In their clear, precise images
and music, they push through immediate experience into delicate and subtle
perceptions.
Sample Poems by Stan Sanvel Rubin
Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the new Rainier Writing Workshop
low-residency MFA program at PLU in Tacoma, WA. He served for over twenty
years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library
(SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program. He holds the SUNY Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Post-Confessionals, a collection
of his interviews with contemporary American poets, was published by Associated
University Presses. He is the author of three collections, Lost and Midnight, both from State Street Press, and,
most recently, On the Coast,
a chapbook (Pudding House, 2002). His poems have appeared in such magazines
as The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly
Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, The Ohio Review, Alaska
Quarterly Review, Chelsea, The Iowa Review and several anthologies.
He regularly writes essay-reviews of contemporary poetry for the journal,
Water-Stone. He received a 2002
Constance J. Saltonstall Foundation Grant in poetry.
ISBN 1932339943, 88 pages, $17.00